The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1887-07-14
So LONDONDERRY VT. THURSDAY JULY H. 1887

Surely they must have been buried with al
the cathedrals sounding a dirge and all the
towers of all the cities tollmg the national
grief. Who art thou, mighty one of heaven!
II lived by choice the unmarried daughter i'll
an humble home that might take care Of my
parents in their old age, and | endured with
out complaint all their querulousness and ad-
minstered to all their wants for twenty
years.
Let us pass on round the circle Of thrones
Who art thou, mighty one of heaveni II
was for thirty years a Christian invalid, and
suffered all the while occasionally writing -
note of sympathy for those worse off than |,
and was general confident of all those who
had trouble, and once in while / was strong
enough to make garment for that poor fam
lily in the back lane.n Pass on to another
throne. Who art thou, mighty one of heaven;
81 was the mother who raised whole family
of children for God, and they are out in the
world Christian merchants, Christian me.
chanics, Christian wives, and have had full
reward of all my toll" Let us pass on In
the circles of thrones. ~ ha aiSabbath-
school class, and they were always on my
heart and they all entered the kingdom Of
God, and am waiting for their ARRIVAL
But who art thou the mighty one of heaven
on this other throne. "In time of bitter per-
secution owned a house in Damascus, a
house on the wall. A man who preached
Christ was bounded from street to street and
hid him from the assassins, and when found
them breaking in my house and l could no
longer keep him safely advised HIM to flee
for his life and basket was let down over
the wall with the maltreated man in it and
was one who helped hold the rope" And
said as that al!n And he answered: That
Is ALL And while | was lost in amaze
ment heard q strong voice that sounded as
,uh hOnrSp
from many exposures and triumphant as
though it might have belonged to one of
the martyrs, and it said Not many mighty,
not many noble are called but God hath
chosen the weak things of the world to con-
found the things which are mighty, and base
things of the world and things which are
despised hath God chosen, yea and things
which are not to bring to naught things
which are, that no flesh should glory in His
presence And | looked to see from whence
the voice come, and lo it was the very one
who had Said Through window in a bas-
ket was let down by the walln
Henceforth think of nothing as insigtiifi-
cant. A little thing may decide your all. A
Cunarder put out from England for New
York, 1t was well equipped, but in putting
up a stove in the pilot box q nail was driven
too near the compass. You know how that
nail would affect the compass. The ships
Othcer, deceived by tnat distracted compass,
put the ship POO miles off her course, and sud
denly the man on the lookout cried: Land
ho' and the ship was halted within few
yards of her demolition on Nantucket shoals.
A sixpenny nail came near wreclling a Gu
harder. Small ropes hold mighty destinies.
A minister seated in Boston at his table,
lacking a word puts his hand behind his
head and tlts back his chair to think, and the
ceiling falls and crushes the table and would
have crushed him A minister in Jamaica
at night by the light of an insect, called the
candle fly is kept from stepping over preci
pice a hundred feet. +. W. Robertson, the
celebrated English clergyman, said that he
entered the ministry from train of circuln
stances started by the barking Of dog, Hat
the wind blown one way on a certain day, the
Spanish lnquisition would have been estab
lished in England; but it blew the other way
and that dropped the accursed institution
with IS, 600 tons of shipping to the bottom O
the sea, or flung the splintered logs on TIN
rocks.
Nothing unimportant in your life or nlinc
Three noughts placed on tie right side OF .h'
figure one make thousand, and six nought
on the right side of the figure one million
and our nothngness placed on the right sid'
may be augmentation illimitable. All thu
ages of time and eternity affected by the bas
kot let down from Damascus balcony.